A year ago they made $71,000,000 in the third quarter. They are about to lose $2,670,000 in the same quarter this year. That looks like $68 million in 3rd quarter profit in two years. Not too shabby for a brick and mortar.

bionicjoe:To be honest that kind of crap as been selling steadily since 2008.The financial crisis seemed to skip 1 - 0.1% of population differently. The free market is fickle.

This whole culture war against the 1% should really be against the .1%. You only have to earn $350,000 a year to be in the 1%, and that's not all that much money. Any decent medical specialist makes that in a year. Doctors are hardly hedge fund managers or bankers or a Walton.

Hopefully they will have a sale to drum up some business. I am in dire need of a new electric cat polisher. Not one of the cheap ones. A good one that runs on rainbows and the laughter of small children.

robohobo:This whole culture war against the 1% should really be against the .1%. You only have to earn $350,000 a year to be in the 1%, and that's not all that much money. Any decent medical specialist makes that in a year. Doctors are hardly hedge fund managers or bankers or a Walton.

But I guess the 1% thing has a nicer ring than .1%.

This! As a reasonably successful pair of engineers, my wife and I have found ourselves getting hit by every new tax measure rolled out to 'make the wealthy pay their fair share', ignoring the fact that we are regular kids from the suburbs

//any tax that targets income, and not assets, is aimed at the middle class

Naritai:robohobo: This whole culture war against the 1% should really be against the .1%. You only have to earn $350,000 a year to be in the 1%, and that's not all that much money. Any decent medical specialist makes that in a year. Doctors are hardly hedge fund managers or bankers or a Walton.

But I guess the 1% thing has a nicer ring than .1%.

This! As a reasonably successful pair of engineers, my wife and I have found ourselves getting hit by every new tax measure rolled out to 'make the wealthy pay their fair share', ignoring the fact that we are regular kids from the suburbs

//any tax that targets income, and not assets, is aimed at the middle class

As a rule, if you don't make your money primarily by owning things, you aren't "the wealthy."

Naritai:robohobo: This whole culture war against the 1% should really be against the .1%. You only have to earn $350,000 a year to be in the 1%, and that's not all that much money. Any decent medical specialist makes that in a year. Doctors are hardly hedge fund managers or bankers or a Walton.

But I guess the 1% thing has a nicer ring than .1%.

This! As a reasonably successful pair of engineers, my wife and I have found ourselves getting hit by every new tax measure rolled out to 'make the wealthy pay their fair share', ignoring the fact that we are regular kids from the suburbs

//any tax that targets income, and not assets, is aimed at the middle class

...stop with this bullshiat talking point. If $350K is 1% of all incomes, then it is, by definition, not middle farking class. That you think it is is the biggest problem to try and fix. Nowhere in America is someone making that much money "struggling" or "just barely above water". If you can't make $350K/yr. work for you, then you're just lousy with money.

Wealth = Owning arable land, livestock, potable water supplies, precious metals and gems, minerals, raw materials, the means of production and distribution. Rich = Everybody does the work that brings the money in the door FOR you. Poor = being the person who does that work.

IlGreven:Naritai: robohobo: This whole culture war against the 1% should really be against the .1%. You only have to earn $350,000 a year to be in the 1%, and that's not all that much money. Any decent medical specialist makes that in a year. Doctors are hardly hedge fund managers or bankers or a Walton.

But I guess the 1% thing has a nicer ring than .1%.

This! As a reasonably successful pair of engineers, my wife and I have found ourselves getting hit by every new tax measure rolled out to 'make the wealthy pay their fair share', ignoring the fact that we are regular kids from the suburbs

//any tax that targets income, and not assets, is aimed at the middle class

...stop with this bullshiat talking point. If $350K is 1% of all incomes, then it is, by definition, not middle farking class. That you think it is is the biggest problem to try and fix. Nowhere in America is someone making that much money "struggling" or "just barely above water". If you can't make $350K/yr. work for you, then you're just lousy with money.

/Doctors are not, and should never be considered, middle class.

Class is not simply defined in terms of annual household income, or even wealth.

bunner:Wealth = Owning arable land, livestock, potable water supplies, precious metals and gems, minerals, raw materials, the means of production and distribution. Rich = Everybody does the work that brings the money in the door FOR you. Poor = being the person who does that work.

by that definition, I'm poor....( even though I don't consider myself to be poor)

While 350k is almost 10x the median, it's still just well-off civilian. The real problem class is 10x them, where money doesn't come from income but interest. Then you get detached from the real world.

AgentPothead:Is this the thread where somebody makes more on average than 99% of the human population of the planet they live on and tries to convince other people they are in the "middle" class? Good times.

Yes, but it's futile, because this is also the thread where somebody will insist that annual household income is the sole determinant of upper class status, because they refuse to even try to learn anything about social class or socioeconomic status.

IlGreven:...stop with this bullshiat talking point. If $350K is 1% of all incomes, then it is, by definition, not middle farking class. That you think it is is the biggest problem to try and fix. Nowhere in America is someone making that much money "struggling" or "just barely above water". If you can't make $350K/yr. work for you, then you're just lousy with money.

Thought experiment:Person 1 has no college degree, and has a low-skilled job from which she pays rent for an apartment.Person 2 cruised through an Ivy League school, then inherited a corporation and even though she has significant assets and cash flow, thanks to skilled work by tax lawyers she claims no income to the IRS.Now let's say Person 1 buys a lottery ticket and wins $200k.Who is wealthier?According to you, Person 1 is, because for 2014 she will claim a high income.